Chester Himes Quotes
Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
Quotes to Explore
-
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
-
No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
-
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
-
You just can't control your art in the future.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
-
Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
-
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
-
I'm not graceful.
-
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
-
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
-
Western man is schizophrenic.
-
Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
-
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
-
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
-
I went from being 'Mario who?' to 'Mario baby!
-
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
-
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
-
I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
-
I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.
-
Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
